Post by djkimmel on Apr 17, 2004 23:00:31 GMT -5
cameraguy and I hit Kent Lake shortly after 8am this morning. We started getting the kinks out by throwing crankbaits. Water temp was 51 to 54 early depending on how protected the water was and 53 to 58 later after the sun really came out and we moved to more protected water. We landed a total of 1 pike, 1 carp and 6 bass throughout the day. I was cloudy to overcast early with light rain, to mostly sunny later in the day until we left after 3pm.
Just along the main show down from the ramp, I had a just-above-hammer-handle pike try to swallow a red Cordell Spot (1/2 oz).
He slammed it head-first on the shallow sand edge right after it landed. He kept trying to swallow the lure. I had a nice walleye swipe at the Spot at the boat a couple casts later.
We went past the bridge and cameraguy caught a solid keeper smallie on his red Excalibur Spot, medium retrieve, off a small sand point dropping in to 9 feet. The smallie was out from shore a ways. I had tried a suspending jerkbait, but no takers. I threw a blade bait a little deeper off the same point as we worked the area over and lost a small smallie halfway to the boat on it.
We moved along quickly concentrating on points and cover near protected backwaters near the East ramp. It's real shallow there. We moved into the shallow areas, but weren’t getting bites along shore. While cutting across the middle of the bay, cameraguy nailed a solid, fat largemouth on a double-willow spinnerbait. I had what looked like a spooked largemouth jump over my red craw Shallow A moments later.
We were fishing our way back out to the main lake when cameraguy popped the biggest of the day – a ~3.5 pound largemouth on the same Spot of his off a sand bar coming out from a point behind the big island.
We fished up the lake to another bay and cameraguy caught this smaller keeper of a nice laydown right were it ought to be on the white double willow spinnerbait:
(He was nice enough to not post one of his larger bass so my one bass looks better.)
Again, out in the middle of the bay, I got a solid largemouth on a chartreuse/white spinnerbait with 1 #4 chrome turtle-back blade slow-rolled over weeds. Here’s my only landed bass of the day:
On the way out, cameraguy got a sub-keeper largemouth on the spinnerbait – but this was after he caught a big carp on a small, expensive jerkbait. It looked like the carp may have tried to eat the jerkbait. Cameraguy had on another nice fish of some kind on the Spot, but lost it. We had a couple other hits apiece.
All in all, not a bad day. We didn’t get totally bored and had our usual fun day together. The bass seemed scattered and moving through the lake, so covering a lot of water was our best bet today – further evidenced by our lack of success with slow, bottom baits.
Just along the main show down from the ramp, I had a just-above-hammer-handle pike try to swallow a red Cordell Spot (1/2 oz).
He slammed it head-first on the shallow sand edge right after it landed. He kept trying to swallow the lure. I had a nice walleye swipe at the Spot at the boat a couple casts later.
We went past the bridge and cameraguy caught a solid keeper smallie on his red Excalibur Spot, medium retrieve, off a small sand point dropping in to 9 feet. The smallie was out from shore a ways. I had tried a suspending jerkbait, but no takers. I threw a blade bait a little deeper off the same point as we worked the area over and lost a small smallie halfway to the boat on it.
We moved along quickly concentrating on points and cover near protected backwaters near the East ramp. It's real shallow there. We moved into the shallow areas, but weren’t getting bites along shore. While cutting across the middle of the bay, cameraguy nailed a solid, fat largemouth on a double-willow spinnerbait. I had what looked like a spooked largemouth jump over my red craw Shallow A moments later.
We were fishing our way back out to the main lake when cameraguy popped the biggest of the day – a ~3.5 pound largemouth on the same Spot of his off a sand bar coming out from a point behind the big island.
We fished up the lake to another bay and cameraguy caught this smaller keeper of a nice laydown right were it ought to be on the white double willow spinnerbait:
(He was nice enough to not post one of his larger bass so my one bass looks better.)Again, out in the middle of the bay, I got a solid largemouth on a chartreuse/white spinnerbait with 1 #4 chrome turtle-back blade slow-rolled over weeds. Here’s my only landed bass of the day:
On the way out, cameraguy got a sub-keeper largemouth on the spinnerbait – but this was after he caught a big carp on a small, expensive jerkbait. It looked like the carp may have tried to eat the jerkbait. Cameraguy had on another nice fish of some kind on the Spot, but lost it. We had a couple other hits apiece.
All in all, not a bad day. We didn’t get totally bored and had our usual fun day together. The bass seemed scattered and moving through the lake, so covering a lot of water was our best bet today – further evidenced by our lack of success with slow, bottom baits.
